Gelatin help

[bcurtis]

Hello,

I've a 22l batch of summer fruits cider fermenting and i'm wondering whether I should use some gelatin to remove some of the haze??

I've a pack of 20g gelatin sheets but cannot see anywhere how many sheets to add, anyone got advice on this??

Or, should I not bother with the gelatin and just bottle my batch??

Cheers

 

[pjbiker]

Dr Oetker gelatin in sachets is about 70p for 6 sachets from Tesco, each one about 20g I think, I use one for each 5 gallon. make up with boiled water that has cooled for a couple of minutes. (boiling it will stop the fining action).

 

[Wendy1971]

we use 15g gelatine added 2 days before we bottle or keg but for the last 5 brews we havnt used anything and its been clear

 

[bcurtis]

Thanks for the replies, you had any bad experiences with using gelatin??

Still undecided whether I should use it or not.

 

[Wendy1971]

no as long as you dissolve it properley in pre cooled boiled water :thumb:

 

[bcurtis]

Thanks for the replies folks, much appreciated. Will try putting this in my bacth tomorrow before bottling on sunday, hope all goes well!!!

 

[screamlead]

I actually found some of this stuff over here - wait for it - 1kg = 119 TL - roughly 42 quid! :shock:
That was the only size i could find it in too. Looks like an add on for wifeys shoppin trip next month along withthe agar too!

 

[graysalchemy]

You need to boil the water and coil to about 80c this will sterilize the gelatine but not make jelly out of it. Then add it to the fv and gently stir. However I also find putting the fv on a cold floor ie concrete garage floor will help drop yeast out of the beer, especially now that we are heading for a cold snap.

 

[bcurtis]

You need to boil the water and coil to about 80c this will sterilize the gelatine but not make jelly out of it. Then add it to the fv and gently stir. However I also find putting the fv on a cold floor ie concrete garage floor will help drop yeast out of the beer, especially now that we are heading for a cold snap.

cheers for the instructions, was wondering exactly how to do it!! :thumb:

Heading for a cold snap??? It's baltic north east of scotland already!!!!! :cry:

 

[graysalchemy]

glad to help :thumb: